Axisymmetric analysis of an inductor using the new surface-to-surface radiation feature for axisymmetry

MEMS Module

Improved piezoelectric application mode that is compatible with application modes for electrostatics and electric currents and where you can change the structural material model (piezo/isotropic/anisotropic/off) and electric part (on/off)

Influence on the resonance frequency of an adsorbed gas in a SAW sensor using the new Piezo Plane Strain application mode

Microreactor with reaction mechanism set up using the new Reaction Engineering Lab import feature

RF Module

Fast far-field processing

Lumped ports for EM waves

Symmetry and periodic boundary condition improvements

New models:

Nonlinear sweep in an eigenvalue analysis with a normalization equation for the eigenvalue using the new periodic boundaries

Calculation of microstrip impedance using two different terminations with the new lumped port conditions

SAR analysis of the radiation emanating from a cellular phone

Electric fields used to detect oil reservoirs beneath the sea

Structural Mechanics Module

Follower forces

Contact usability improvements (automatic choice of penalty factors)

Improved piezoelectricity application mode that is compatible with application modes for electrostatics and electric currents and where you can change the structural material model (piezo/isotropic/anisotropic/off) and electric part (on/off)

Piezoelectric Material Properties database

Script-based tools for fatigue analysis as a postprocessing step for structural models supporting different cases of load histories and proportional/nonproportional loading

New models:

Stent deformation during deployment in an artery

The new fatigue-analysis feature implemented in an analysis of a cylinder with a small perforation

Piezoresistive effects in a device incorporated in an elevator button

Clay under load using the Mohr-Columb yield condition

The new fatigue analysis done on a shell structure with a square-shaped cutout

Piezoelectric, structural, and acoustic model of a transducer using the new Piezo Axial Symmetry application mode

Influence on the resonance frequency of an adsorbed gas in a SAW sensor using the new Piezo Plane Strain application mode

A benchmark model of the new fatigue-analysis feature; analyzing a shaft with two different radii

Contact and plastic deformation in a snap hook incorporated in the button of a car panel

Contact and elasto-plastic analysis of a circular plate deformed by a spherical punch

Frequency-response analysis and mechanical heating of a beam using the new mechanical-heating feature

Structural and fatigue analysis of a lightweight wheel rim using the new features for fatigue analysis

Reaction Engineering Lab

Parameter estimation for building models from experimental data

Export of models to the Earth Science Module and MEMS Module

New models:

Thermal decomposition of methane in a catalytic bed

Catalytic cracking of flashed distillate feedstock in a plug-flow reactor

Study of the reaction mechanism for catalytic hydrogenation of aldehydes

The new parameter estimation tool used on multiple sets of data for an enzyme catalyzed reaction

Different variations of the new parameter-estimation feature on the analysis of kinetics data for CO absorption in water

Degradation mechanism and transport of Aldicarb in soil

Parameter estimation of a batch reactor process for peroxide decomposition